Description
The crime business weighs in at an astonishing $2.7 trillion dollars, or 1-3% of the wealth created in the world each year. Every day, criminal organisations threaten the global economy. The business of crime is a reality that needs to be explored and explained, by eschewing paranoia and fascination, and plunging into the heart of the business.
Bertrand Monnet, a professor at EDHEC, one of Europe’s top business schools, is leading the investigation. For 15 years Bertrand has navigated two very different worlds. One centred on EDHEC’s ultra-modern campus, with its comfortable lecture theatres and the outstanding students. And the other across the Niger Delta, the mountains of northern Mexico, the Amazon Forest, southern Colombia, the Somali coast, Albania, the favelas of Sao Paulo or the Naples underworld, where he meets drug traffickers, ultra-violent gang leaders, oil smugglers and armed rebels.
Dirty Cash decodes the crime business: observing and capturing, with unique access, the reality of the world’s most profitable crime businesses. The series will then decrypt their business models in the classroom by focusing on their turnover, margins, logistics and commercial strategy.
The first episode of the series focuses on drug trafficking through an investigation embedded with the Mexican cartel of Sinaloa, and the second episode focuses on the trafficking of oil, through an investigation imbedded with armed rebels and smugglers in the south of Nigeria.